Ajurn Appadurai [sic], a prominent contemporary social-cultural anthropologist and Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, addresses debates about the extent to which the world has always been a place of faraway places and distant times. He will argue the need to develop a new approach to tackle this question, one which moves away from single factors, forces and causes, and focuses instead on sets of interactive phenomena which combine to produce the sense that large-scale connectivity saturates the practices of everyday life.

I AM REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS even if they couldn’t be bothered to proofread/spell his name right.